Hiking Taiwan 水漾森林

We took the 09:10 pm bus from taipei to feng yuan 豐原， reached there arround 11:45 pm and already a guy from the hiking team came to pick us up at the station. He took us to his house for a quick rest. 

This is how the room looks like. All 6 of us squeeze each other so that everyone has a space to sleep. We slept for only 1-2 hours as we have to wake up at 03:30 am to get ready for the next ride to nantou 南投. Reached there arround 07:00 and gathered together with other people making us a small group of 18 people. We started to walk to the hiking entrance with so much excitement.

 

We got into the entrance and soon our journey began ✌️

As you can see from the picture, this mountain is no joke, as soon as we started to hike, i feel tired immediately as we are going up up up and we have to stay close and cant climb too slow so that we wont get separated from the group and get lost. 

This mountain aint like any other mountain that ive ever hiked before in Taipei. It is pretty challenging and i love it! The hiking path wasnt too wide either, that you have to be careful or else you'll got slipped.

 Actually, i feel like im in my own element! I love this kind of challenging things, especially the rope thing! It makes me forget all the hectic back there in Taipei, not even thinking about any casting or fitting that i should go next week LOL. 

We stopped for several rests for about 5-10 mins each. We got to the point where we reached the highest point of the mountain 2388m and took the longest rest up there for 1 hour lunch break. I ate my bread and found out that ive ate some snacks like oats biscuits, chocolate bar in every pitstop that in lunch time i feel kinda full already after eating 2 slices of wheat raisin walnut toast. After eating our lunch, some of us just went to sleep.

Honestly, it was pretty tiring, really! I sweat a lot at that time we already hiked for almost 5 hours. Then at 12 o'clock we continue to hike. I love how the sunlight came through the grasses.

Then the trainer said that there will be less challenging path in front, but we'll be seeing a lot of sunshine next. Great!

Yes it was hot but i can feel that we are going to reach the 水漾森林 pretty soon! We walked for another 2 hours and here we are! We finally made it!

It was a relieved! We ve been hiking for 8 hours and to finally see the beauty of 水漾森林 its just pretty amazing. The media said the lake doesnt have any water left and the reality is they still have some water! 

We started to build our own tent and its really easy and fun as well! 

 After building the tent, we went to get some fresh water from the river up there. 

I also grabbed my towel and got myself clean up a lil bit as we cant take any shower there. The water is very cold and fresh! we filled up our bottle with the mountain water and get them boiled. At first i dont trust the mountain water but then i asked myself if we didnt drink the water, how about tmrw's journey? I brought 2 bottles of water and i dranked it all on the way here. So lets live wild, i want to blend with nature try to live the nature life :) so then after that, we waited for the dinner that the 原住民 aborigin's cook! 

Omg! It was really good! Weve been starving and to see this kind of food being served, it just made our day! Although we looked like a prisoner whos queuing for the food, i dont even care. It was pretty funny actually!! Haha. After the dinner, we went to our tent and making up our sleeping bag! 

It is definitely a new experience to me and yeah im lovin it. Woke up in the morning with soar on the back because the ground isnt really flat but still i woke up with a fresh good mood at 05:30 am and eat breakfast✌️

Then we went to take some pictures of the 水漾森林.

It was pretty cold at night. The weather difference is really obvious. Still pretty hot when we reached there and the temperature dropped down at night drastically.

We start to hike again at 07:00 am. 

Hike hike hike, walk walk walk! Loving each and every moment of it! 

 

Oh I forgot to introduce this popular plant that've been yelled all the way of our hiking journey! 咬人貓！yao ren mao! 小心咬人貓！my friend accidentally bumped into it when she tried to squat for rest! And directly she felt itchy all over her butt and she said it started to get swollen! But luckily after like 30mins the itchy has gone. Here is a picture of it!

Yayy lunch time! Another 1 hour break! Ate all the bread that was left. Drank all the water that was left. The trainer told us we'll be reaching the ground of civilization arround 2 oclock! And it was already 12✌️✌️

 

 

After a lil bit rest, we moved on. At that time, you'll see so many long grasses along the hiking path that you have to be careful it will accidentally scratch your face or body! But yeah its still pretty😊

Then finally we saw the ground! I mean the ground! Back to civilization!

 So happy! Like finally we made it! Our first challenging mountains! And there're more mountains to be hiked in Taiwan! We are thinking about 玉山 or 嘉明湖 for next! How about you guys?

NTCTourTPE 2015

Ok so basically i love to workout on my free time. And yesterday 14th of March 2015 was the day of NTCTourTpe! I got so very excited because i participated in the NTCparty which was outdoor last year and that was so very amazing because it was raining but then the music and the NTC trainers were so very high that the rain didnt even bother at all. 

Different from last year, this year it is indoor which took place in 中正紀念堂（chiang kai-sek memorial hall)

As you can see, outside the NTC hall there were many girls preparing themselves for the NTCTourTPE2015. Its good to see so many girls participating on this event . But not until you see whats inside the hall.

Thousands of girls were inside the hall and yet waiting for the party to get started!

So after the performers have done with the opening dance, finally at 15:30 all the ntc trainers came out and it started to get HIGHHHHHHH!!! Lets get the party started!! 

We start to do the workout for arround 30mins and then went out for some fresh air 5-10mins.

Eelin models and agents gathered arround for a lil bit rest. Its a nice feeling to know that not only me who wants to live healthy and to have a lot of friends to workout together has always been my motivation to get healthier.

Then again we went inside the hall for the body combat! I couldnt miss the body combat as it has been my favourite workout since the first time i tried that. After that i could feel that my legs were getting numb, so did everyone else ;p

After 10mins of rest, i went out and the days has already turned dark. We went for the last session of the NTC party , dancing it is!! 

It gets to the point where the party is going to end! Such an unforgettable moment! So much fun to see all the girls all together gathered arround working so hard to get this party done!

Thanks to all the trainers!!! You guys are so awesome!!!!!! Loving the spirit that you guys have! Thankyou to nike that has put up such a great yet so motivating event for all the girls in taiwan! All wrapped up at 19:30 and ready to go back to get our stuff!

 When i get back to grab my stuff, I got interviewed by taiwans media 蘋果日報（apple daily). Its good to share some of my experience and feeling after doing the super fun NTCTourTpe!

 

Its a wrapped!!!! And everyone looks so pretty after doing the workout NTCTourTPE! ❤️❤️❤️